> make hal
> pull in libsmbios once Matt, his colleagues or others have packaged it
> up [1] for Fedora (hint hint nudge nudge) - the latter means that Dell
> laptops can have their backlight controlled via g-p-m etc.)
.... which is ENTIRELY the wrong way I suspect.
The kernel provides a unified backlight API now, adding more private
hacks rather than moving them to the unified API sounds like a step
backwards to me ..